I’ve seen enterprise deals collapse under their own weight. Not because the product wasn’t ready, but because the paperwork wasn’t. Security reviews. Compliance checks. Legal back-and-forth. Each one adds weeks, sometimes months. The companies that win these deals don’t

A huge amount of Liveblocks updates have been released, including full multi-tenancy! Partition your app into different workspaces, each with their own documents, inboxes, more. Set a `tenantId` when you create a resource, and it just works. There's 10 more new features too…

I used to think enterprise deals were mostly about the product demo. Then I spent months navigating my first multi-stakeholder account and realized how naive that was. Story time... A recent deal we closed started in a very unexpected place. Someone inside the company had been

Why can't you delete Yjs documents? We've published a new guide explaining the role of tombstones, why deleting Yjs content makes your document larger, and what you can do about it. lblcks.io/QMlXyLP

New Liveblocks hook! Semantically search through a room's comments, like in Figma. Results are found based on meaning, not exact words—for example a query for "marketing" will bring up results for "email campaign."

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We've just released new Liveblocks Comments features. • Semantically search comments in a room with our new hook. • Add custom items to thread dropdown menus—see "Ask AI" in video. Additionally, we've written a number of new Yjs guides ↓

The Liveblocks team met in Punta Cana for this year's retreat 🇩🇴

We held our retreat in Punta Cana last month, and I’m still grateful we made the time for it. Remote works incredibly well for us, but spending time together in person brings a different kind of clarity and connection. Thankful for this team. I love building with them. Excited

I talked to Steven Fabre about building software that helps humans and AI work together

AI in a product only clicks when it feels like a teammate. Talked with Turner Novak 🍌🧢 about this, Liveblocks, my founder journey, and building a remote team. Episode below 👇

I asked Steven Fabre what most people get wrong when building AI software: "The biggest mistake is bolting on an AI chatbot somewhere and calling it a day. This requires learning a new interface, and sometimes completely changes how someone uses the product. Meanwhile, most

I asked Steven Fabre how to get #1 on Product Hunt 😸: "The first few hours from 12 to 6am PT are the most important. You need that initial traction to be at the top of the list throughout the day as everyone wakes up. Another thing we do is mini-launches throughout the year to

I asked Steven Fabre how to add AI features to a product: "Treat AI like a human collaborator. Enable users to access AI wherever they're already doing the work. If customer feedback comes in through Slack, let them @ mention an AI engineer to fix the bug right there. Then let

I started my career in Australia, spent years working in the US, and now I’m building Liveblocks from Europe. After nearly two decades in tech, I don’t believe great teams are location-dependent. There’s a strong belief in Silicon Valley that being physically there is

Liveblocks CEO @StevenFabre on why founders should hire a sales coach to master enterprise sales: "I hired a sales coach to force myself to prioritize it. As a designer, it was all new to me. But I enjoyed the process of learning it. My coach literally joined all of my sales

Understanding sync engines: How Figma, Linear, and Google Docs work. In our latest article, learn how realtime sync engines work and which to choose when building your application. lblcks.io/lqF8ghY

I asked Steven Fabre what he's learned running distributed teams at Liveblocks - Hire with overlapping time zones - Central place where work happens + is documented - Hire a Head of People earlier than you think